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Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the present : from the age of segregation to the twenty-first century

Publication date: 2009

Topics: African Americans -- History -- Encyclopedias, African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964 -- Encyclopedias, African Americans -- History -- 1964- -- Encyclopedias, African Americans -- Biography -- Encyclopedias

Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press

Collection: inlibrary; printdisabled; marygrovecollege; internetarchivebooks; americana

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

Volume: 3

5 v. : 29 cm

Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period, this encyclopedia traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Brown ruling that overturned Plessy , the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African-American culture on the American cultural landscape. --publisher description

v. 1. A-C -- v. 2. D-I -- v. 3. J-N -- v. 4. O-T -- v. 5. U-Y, Chronology, Index

Includes bibliographical references and index